I expect there wasn't much to call off, so far as she was concerned, anyhow." He laughed feebly.

"She told me I better go and enlist." "Pleasant of her!" Fred muttered.

"Especially as we know what she thinks enlisting means." He raised his voice cheerfully.

"Well, that's settled; and, thank God, old Mr.Bernstorff's on his way to his sweet little vine-clad cottage home! They're getting guns on the ships, and the big show's liable to commence any day.

We can hold up our heads now, and we're going to see some great times, old Ramsey boy! It's hard on the home folks--Gosh! I don't like to think of that! And I guess it's going to be hard on a lot of boys that haven't understood what it's all about, and hard on some that their family affairs, and business, and so on, have got 'em tied up so it's hard to go--and of course there's plenty that just can't, and some that aren't husky enough--but the rest of us are going to have the big time in our lives.